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I, I...

It's one of those questions that I don't think there's a simple answer, that I think there's a number of components that have, um, essentially amalgamated to create this almost imperfect storm for possibly a generation, maybe two generations, of current adults to have been, if you like, in inverted commas, missed.

So on the one hand, you've got history.

Um, so autism is relatively new.

It's not new, by the way.

Autism has always been around.

So far, we've spoken about what masking looks like, but the real question is, if someone masks for 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, even longer, what can masking ultimately cost someone?

Mm-hmm.

But you've got the same brain.

You're the same autistic person.

So if you're functioning better in one environment than in another, that's got to be environmental.

It can't be just down to you being autistic, otherwise your functioning would be exactly the same continuously, and that's not the case at all.

And actually, those extremes of functioning in the same individual are obvious to see.

So you can have somebody who one day is a world-leading expert and another day be, um, uh, sectioned in a psychiatric unit, functioning very poorly.

Yeah.